The city of Los Angeles is still battling three fierce wildfires. As of Monday morning, at least 24 people have lost their lives and more than 120,000 structures have been either damaged or destroyed in the area. It’s a devastating situation — and the required water to keep the flames at bay is as difficult… Continue reading Politicians Blame Los Angeles Fires on Explosion of AI Data Centers
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Scientists Say They’ve Figured Out What Turned the Sun Blue
The Sun was feeling gloomy. Clouded Thoughts In 1831, a volcanic eruption flooded the skies with so much sulfur gas that it cooled the planet by nearly two degrees Fahrenheit, causing all manner of famine, devastation, and social upheaval. So gloomy were its effects that, in the northern hemisphere, it even sullied the beaming visage… Continue reading Scientists Say They’ve Figured Out What Turned the Sun Blue
Waymo Self-Driving Taxi Flummoxed by Construction Worker’s Hand Signals
Waymo’s cars are still struggling with the basics. Wave Function Collapse For years, Google’s Waymo driverless taxis have been wreaking havoc on San Francisco streets — and an increasing number of other cities as the service expands — triggering traffic jams, getting stuck in roundabouts, and even colliding with a delivery robot. And when it comes to… Continue reading Waymo Self-Driving Taxi Flummoxed by Construction Worker’s Hand Signals
Behold the AI Slop Dominating Google Image Results for “Does Corn Get Digested”
What happens inside our digestive systems when we feeble humans consume digestion-resistant corn? You wouldn’t know from the not-so-helpful graphics holding rank as Google’s top image results for the query, which have been polluted by bizarre AI-generated slop. As pointed out on X-formerly-Twitter by the hardworking account “Insane Facebook AI Slop,” a simple search query for… Continue reading Behold the AI Slop Dominating Google Image Results for “Does Corn Get Digested”
Scientists Say Children Are Getting Sick and Dying in Huge Numbers Due to Chemicals and Plastics
Image by Getty / Futurism A body of the world’s leading public health researchers says that the number of children dying from noncommunicable diseases over the past 50 years has gone up dramatically, largely because of exposure to synthetic chemicals and plastics. In a new paper published in the New England Journal of Medicine, which… Continue reading Scientists Say Children Are Getting Sick and Dying in Huge Numbers Due to Chemicals and Plastics
Chick-fil-A Using Advanced Squeezing Robots to Conduct Huge Lemon Party
Talk about advanced squeezing technique. Party On, Chicken Chick-fil-A has built an armada of robots to squeeze citrus for its delectable lemonade, turning the God-fearing fast food chain‘s lemonade plant into a veritable lemon party. As Bloomberg reports, the chicken chain’s Santa Clarita, California plant is home to driverless forklifts, gigantic mechanic lemon-grabbing arms, automated rollers,… Continue reading Chick-fil-A Using Advanced Squeezing Robots to Conduct Huge Lemon Party
Google’s AI Overview Believes Baby Elephants Can Sit in the Palm of a Human Hand
Are baby elephants, which weigh hundreds of pounds at birth, tiny enough to fit squarely within the bounds of a human palm? Common sense would say no — but Google’s AI Overview, or the AI-generated summary of web content that now often pops up at the top of Google results pages, seems to think the… Continue reading Google’s AI Overview Believes Baby Elephants Can Sit in the Palm of a Human Hand
Scientists Discover “Punk” and “Emo” Fossils
Feeling old yet? Fossil Out Boy Two “Punk” and “Emo” fossils — and we don’t mean elder members of the music circles that once enjoyed greater cultural cachet — are challenging scientists’ understanding of the evolution of mollusks. The scene, folks, is not dead. As detailed in a study published in the journal Nature, the… Continue reading Scientists Discover “Punk” and “Emo” Fossils
Humans Can Access Something Akin to “Bullet Time,” Scientist Says
Image by Warner Bros. While we’re not quite living in “The Matrix” — at least in a falsifiable sense — it seems that something comparable to the film’s legendary slowed-down “bullet time” sequence can, under the right circumstances, happen in real life. In an essay for The Conversation, psychology lecturer Steve Taylor of England’s Leeds Beckett University argues that… Continue reading Humans Can Access Something Akin to “Bullet Time,” Scientist Says
AI Is Like Tinkerbell: It Only Works If We Believe in It
There’s no limit to the promise of artificial intelligence. Or at least, there’s no limit to the promises that the powerful make about AI. We’re told by tech companies and their investors that AI has the capacity to transform everything, making us more productive workers and more efficient learners — before eventually making us obsolete… Continue reading AI Is Like Tinkerbell: It Only Works If We Believe in It